One of the values of having a bar which everyone can enter and share their biography, is the opportunity of meeting extraordinary people and their fascinating stories about life and fates completely different from ours.
We have already met a few people about whom we could write a lot. However, no one will beat Don Trait, an Australian, in his rich biography and unbelievable adventures.
Don is almost 80 years old. And he’s got the head and soul of a very young man. And inexhaustible energy. He is still working intensively, now he is dealing with hydroponics! We do not know exactly what it looks like, because his stories (sometimes very long and absorbing) mainly refer to his youth spent in Australia while working with camels, horses and cattle as a drover (an Australian cowboy).
He wrote several books, one of which we got as a gift. "The Last Drover of the Canning Stock Route Era 1908 - 1958".
I got fascinated by this story and decided to translate it into Polish (with the consent of the Author) and add footnotes to the Polish-language reader about the realities of Western Australia and the life of local settlers and wage labourers at work in stock industry. And all this against the background of the problems of the white people with Aborigines, or maybe just the other way round.
I was reading the book with the same interest as I was reading books about the Wild West in America. This time it is an autobiography written extremely emotionally and with a great heart for animals and respect for Aborigines (in this order).
PS
Don hates sbeing photographed and we tooka long time to talked him to posing in front the camera.
He agreed if I am sitting next to him. I gaped in the joy of our success!
Ściskamy Was obu
K&R
Oczywiście każdy gość jest ważny, chodzi o wymiar korzyści , jakie odnosicie - nie zawsze ten wymiar można ocenić tu i teraz.
Ciekawe, czego będzie więcej - książek , czy kotletów ?